Re: Wiki access warning?

On 01/04/2016 09:58 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
>> On 01/04/2016 09:52 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>>> Josh,
>>>
>>> * Josh Berkus (josh@agliodbs.com) wrote:
>>>> Apparently all wiki accounts have been set to read-only mode as an
>>>> antispam measure.  We should probably post a notice on the wiki home
>>>> page, and maybe on pgsql-general/announce about this, so that people
>>>> aren't surprised when they can't edit the wiki.
>>>
>>> Not all of them.  Dave and Joe (as I recall) spent quite a bit of time
>>> going through and setting up the right permissions for everyone who had
>>> edited the wiki recently who weren't identified as spammers.
>>>
>>> Thus, the change should only impact those who haven't edited it recently
>>> and who are now trying to.  I agree that adding something to the
>>> homepage letting people know that they need to be granted membership in
>>> the Editor group to edit pages would be good.
>>
>> exactly - accounts that have recently edited the wiki have been granted
>> the "editor" priviledge. We are still discussing on how to improve the
>> situation but the mediawiki capabilities in terms of moderation are limited.
> 
> Simple idea: everyone invited to a developer meeting should get editor
> privs automatically.

yeah - but that is not nearly enough, the wiki really is for the wider
community and we need to find a more suitable approach...


Stefan